Vladimir Nabokov. Guía de Berlín : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Guía de Berlín
n tram has vanished, and so will the trolley, and some eccentric Berlin writer in the twenties of the twenty-first century, wishing to portray our time, will go to a museum of technological his-tory and locate a hundred-year-old streetcar, yellow, uncouth, with old -fashioned curved seats, and in a museum of old costumes dig up a black, shiny-buttoned conductor's uniform. Then he will go home and compile a description of Berlin streets in bygone days. Everything, every trifle, will be valuable and meaningful: the conductor's purse, the advertisement over the window, that peculiar jolting motion which our great-grandchildren will perhaps imagine—everything will be ennobled and justified b